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Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
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Painting ID:: 86121
The Concert
Date c. 1664(1664)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 72,5 x 64,7 cm
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Painting ID:: 89456
Frauenportrat
1655-1660
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 82 x 65 cm
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Painting ID:: 90152
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
ca. 1662
Oil on canvas; 18 x 16 in.
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Painting ID:: 92484
Study of a young woman
c. between 1665(1665) and 1667(1667)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 44.5 X 40 cm (17.5 X 15.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 92511
The concert.
c. 1663-1666
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 72.5 X 64.7 cm (28.5 X 25.5 in)
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Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
. Related Artists to Johannes Vermeer: | Matilda Browne | Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier | William Blamire Young | Master of the Saint Lucy Legend | Englebert Fisen |
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